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H. Oleracea. — The same remarks apply as those under H. Chenopodium ; 

 but it may also be captured in woods at sugar (Southwood, Highgate) and 

 Park Ground Inclosure, Lyndhurst. 



H. Pisi. — The larva abundant on Hampstead Heath, in the Autumn ; and 

 rare on the banks of the Wye, near Chepstow. 



H. Thalassina. — Not common. June and July. At sugar. Southwood, 

 Highgate, and Denny Woods, New Forest. 



H. Contigua. — At sugar. Not very common. Denny Wood and Furzy 

 Lawn Inclosure, New Forest. 



H. Genista. — Scarce at rest. (The Ballards), West Wickham, on trees 

 aud palings. May. 



Xylocampa Lithorhiza. — At rest on trunks of trees and palings at some 

 height from the ground. March and April. Lanes, fir and oak plantations 

 about Shirley, West Wickham, and Surrey, (common) and rare in the New 

 Forest. 



Calocampa Exoleta. — A few at sugar, March, 1875. New Forest. At 

 ivy, Hampton Court. September. 



Xylina Ehizolitha. — At rest on trunks and at sugar. Autumn and 

 Spring. Common. Hurst Hill Inclosure, Lyndhurst. 



Cucullia Chamomilla. — At rest on Bishop's Paling, near Shirley, just 

 under the projecting ledge at the top. May. 



C. Umbratica. — Once taken at rest near Highgate ; also at Lyndhurst 

 near the station on palings. July. 



Heliothis Dipsacea. — Flying swiftly over heaths by day. New Forest. 

 July. 



Anarta Myrtilli. — At rest and flying at dusk over heath, Shirley, Surrey, 

 and in the New Forest; also on the Moors at Whitby. Not very common. 



Erastria Fusccjla. — Beaten out of bramble by day. Park Hill Inclosure, 

 Lyndhurst. 



Brephos Parthenias. — Male on the wing, female at rest on twigs among 

 birch. West Wickham Wood, Surrey. March. 



Pltjsia Chrysitis. — Once at light. Sevenoaks, Kent. August. 



Gonoptera Libatrix. — At sugar, light, and at rest about outhouses. 

 Highgate (rare), Sevenoaks, Kent, and about Lyndhurst. August and 

 September. 



Amphipyra Pyramidea. — At sugar. Yery abundant in the New Forest. 

 One of the few insects that will come to sugar on a beech tree. July and 

 August. Once took the larva at Highbeech, Epping. 



